Monthly Archives: May 2016

White Walkers Win- Fifth Digest

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*This post was written before Game of Thrones Season Six Episode Four premiered. It is in response to Episode Three: Oathbreaker.

Don’t mind me. I’m just over here crying for fictional characters. It’s a thing I’m used to, being a book nerd. I am in full mourning for Shaggy Dog. I have been enamored with the Stark direwolves since they very first episode. I mourned the loss of Lady and Grey Wind as well. I knew Jon Snow was gonna be fine because Ghost was fine and now I know poor, innocent baby Rickon is doomed because… well… Ramsey, but beyond that, Shaggy Dog is gone. I just can’t.

It is clear that none of these characters understand:

  1. The long game
  2. The White Walkers are coming! No of this is going to matter if you’re all dead.

 

I have consumed nothing but Game of Thrones related stories. Here are some of my favorites:

Elite Daily- Bran Theory

Arts.Mic- Hodor Theory

Also Nerdette does a fantastic recap podcast with Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me’s Peter Sagal.  I have just been listening to the episodes on repeat. They post generally at about 3:00 p.m. on Mondays. I believe they are going to have a live event at the close of the season. I’m looking forward to attending.

That’s all for me this week!

#BookCon2016

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I had the nerdiest weekend ever.

Saturday was BookCon. It was so much fun! The got a gallery of Dark Matter coming from Penguin Random House. They also gave away copies of The Wrath and the Dawn. Eeeeekkkk! 

I purchased Wytches: Volume One. I read the first three pages while waiting for a panel to begin. Big mistake. I’m going to have the worst nightmares. 

A portion of the floor at BookCon

A portion of the floor at BookCon

Lunch with friends.

J, per usual was the mastermind behind this whole thing. I just went along with her. I’m grateful she included me.
I met Daniel José Older! If you recall, I gushed about how much I love him and his books in my 2016 preview post. He was so sweet! Please go read all his books if you haven’t. 
The author of this blog with author Daniel José Older.

Daniel José Older, my shiny forehead, and I.

I’m now on my way to see Captain America: Civil War. Have a great weekend all!

#SmashYourStack: Week 1 Update

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The goal is eight books. So I should have read two…

I read two!
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I started the week with Paper Girls: Volume 1 written by Brian K. Vaughn of Saga fame. There may be time travel and aliens and a group of bad ass paper girls. It rocked my world. I can’t wait for volume two.

the cover of paper girls volume one

Look at that beautiful art.

I purposefully chose short books to get through this weekend and jump start my reading stats for #SmashYourStack Week 2 and in preparation for #BoutofBooks. More on that in another post.

These are the shortest books I own (each under 200 pages). I decided to start with The House on Mango Street. It was the shortest, contained vignettes, and is set in Chicago. That sound you hear are all my bells ringing. Cisneros did not disappoint. Esperanza, the narrator, is so perfect. I totally identified with her. I knew that pain, that joy. Yes and yes.


I’m going with Sula next because I am in the mood to have my life changed. This is my fourth Morrison, after The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and A Mercy. I feel it my duty as a black person, a woman, a book nerd, and a Howard University alumna to read all of her books.

I met up with some of my book club people on Sunday afternoon for reading and general nerdy socializing and, of course, drinks. It was a great way to wrap up the week.

Here’s to two more books next week!

A Lot of Book Clubs: Fourth Digest

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Wired Book Club  reading The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemison. It is their inaugural book. I’m probably not going to get to it this month, but I will try to get it soon. Maybe even write a review…?

My virtual book club, The Blissful Bookworms, is reading Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. I was addicted after about 20 pages. Look at that cover!

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Black Girls are from the Future is reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. This is a childhood favorite of mine and I have endless feels, which I will not go into now, about Zora Neale Hurston. For now, know that she was the bomb and did/does not get the credit she deserves.

Veronica Roth’s new book. Make. your. money. honey! Take all my little coins. Also, Ms. Roth will be at BookCon and maybe, hopefully, so will a few ARCs.

I’m still trying to get over Game of Thrones. I just watched episode 3 this morning and I’m just like…
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So, that’s all for me this week.

Still Drinking #Lemonade-Third Digest

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I am still sipping on this ice cold, refreshing #Lemonade that Beyonce served us all. Some profound writers and thinkers are drinking it too.

Brittany Luse, a fellow Bison, wrote for Refinery 29

Roxanne Gay via The Guardian

Janet Mock gave me chills with her epic rundown of Lemonade, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the burden of black womanhood.

The New Yorker even had commentary

Also, April 27th, marked 100 days until the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I love the Olympics. The Olympics ads are, to me, just as good as the Superbowl ads. P&G has been winning for several years with their Thank You Mom campaign. The SoChi ad is still available here, but the one for the 2016 Summer Olympics is heavier and brought me to tears at my desk at work. It’s amazing. Not only is P&G sending a powerful message about the strength and importance of mothers, but they do it by showing ALL the moms (read: colorful moms). This is way to make ads people. Follow them.

#IndependentBookstoreDay was April 30th. J and I spent the day on a self-made book crawl. It may have been the best thing to happen to me this year. So many good books! It’ll get a separate post soon.  Here’s J’s post and we were together, so it’s kind of the same.

Hot drinks and new books. That is living your best life


Me going into The Book Cellar. Third Bookstore of the day.


That’s all for me. Have a great week!

P.S.: If you have an iPhone, I set up a Litsy account. Litsy is the child of Goodreads and Instagram. It’s great. You can find me there as Lucky_LaDee.